Word: fervently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Like his real-life counterpart, Almazov had once been a fervent party member, until he realized that "so far from being socialist, the system that had finally become established in Russia was a particularly vicious form of fascism." Through one of the youthful patients, Tarsis bitterly asks: "What is Communism?" His answer: "The apotheosis of drabness, the negation of personality, life on semolina gruel in a one-room flat with a bathroom-lavatory and a combination divan-bed-cupboard-desk-bookcase...
...good mean little bastards," says Al Capp, "eager to hurt each other. That's why they are so delicious. They wound each other with the greatest enthusiasm. Anybody who sees theology in them is a devil worshiper." Maybe so. But there is no doubt that Schulz, a fervent Bible reader, is aware of original sin. He owns up to making his Peanuts mean because he believes that kids are born mean. But by making his characters cruel on occasion, he has also made them believable. They have a dignity and a formality that is touching; children are people...
LINCOLN'S SCAPEGOAT GENERAL, by Richard S. West Jr. "The Beast"-Benjamin Butler-was one of the Civil War's toughest Northern generals. He earned Southerners' undying hatred as the governor of occupied New Orleans, became a fervent champion of liberal causes during the Reconstruction. West succeeds admirably in separating an unusual man from the usually accepted image of the Beast...
...nearly a decade works tucked away in a tapestry-lined office on a floor between ancient Etruscan pottery, above, and Greco-Roman statuary, below. Son of a Cleveland interior designer, Rorimer has been at home at the Met ever since his 1927 graduation from Harvard. A fervent medievalist and devotee of the decorative arts, he named his children Louis and Anne after the late 15th century French monarchs, Louis XII and Anne of Brittany, whose marriage was celebrated by the weaving of the Unicorn tapestries, which Rorimer acquired for the Met. He was director of the Met's Rockefeller...
Because the council, through its Commission on Religion and Race, has been fervent in the cause of civil rights, much of the slugging comes from angered Southerners or others dubious about integration. Such radiorators as Carl Mclntire and Billy James Hargis, who are fundamentalist in religion and right wing in politics, charge that the council is soft on Communism because a 1958 council study conference advocated recognition of Red China, and because council leaders welcome Rus sian Orthodox churchmen...